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Plane crashes, winds up on roof during landing at Toronto's Pearson airport (www.cbc.ca)
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Incident involved Delta Airlines plane coming from Minneapolis, airport says

Toronto's Pearson airport is responding to an emergency involving a Delta Airlines plane arriving from Minneapolis Monday afternoon that crashed and flipped on its back.

Pearson airport's runways are now closed until at least Tuesday, according to aviation officials.

The airport didn't immediately provide further information on the nature of the emergency, but a photo submitted to CBC from a passenger shows a plane flipped on its back.

All passengers and crew are accounted for, the airport said in a post to X just before 3 p.m.

Peel Region paramedics say they are on the scene. They say one passenger has been critically injured and seven others were also hurt. A superintendent with the Peel Region paramedic service says all of the other roughly 80 passengers and crew are accounted for and not believed to be injured at this time.

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[–] Polkira@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 day ago (5 children)

That's wild, how does that even happen? Glad everyone is alive.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

For a plane to completely go over like that, I would have to think it was significantly overspeed...

[–] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 6 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Wind gusts were 51-65 km/h during the time of the accident. That definitely had something to do with it.

https://weather.gc.ca/past_conditions/index_e.html?station=yyz

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 7 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I either missed this, or is has been added to the article:

Audio recording from Pearson's air traffic control tower shows that Delta Air Lines Flight 4819 was cleared to land shortly after 2 p.m. and that the tower warned the pilots of a possible air flow "bump" in the glide path from an aircraft in front of it, according to a report from The Canadian Press.

So wake turbulence could be a factor.

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